Finally!
The first East Asia Summit: potential challenges to greater regional cooperation
Six months, 13 116 words … and as of this afternoon, it’s all over.
Today has been an insane day — frantic panic to finalise my referencing, followed by a minor crisis when printing, then an awesome afternoon at the End of Semester Show, and the first fun night out I’ve had in ages.
I am now going to sleep. A lot. If you’re trying to contact me, don’t expect a prompt response 
Two days, two days, two days…
They’ve put our final year dinner on Monday night. As the tickets say, two hours after thesis =)
CONGRATULATIONS!!!!
I still have 7 months to go. :/
[...] The ASEAN summit in Cebu, postponed from last December, has just started. Impressively, our government has used this as a chance to pitch in a $5m donation to combat bird flu, which gives some meat to the rather hollow Declaration from the last East Asia Summit, and fits in nicely with the argument made on page 29 of my thesis [...]
[...] Speaking of Japan, simmering resentment between it and China earned barely a mention in most media coverage of the second Summit — unlike last time — and this is pretty much entirely due to Shinzo Abe taking over from Junichiro Koizumi as PM. Abe has made little in the way of significant changes to Japan’s dealings with China, but simply by not (yet) visiting the Yasukuni Shrine he has defused tensions enough that an entire section of my thesis is rendered obsolete. But that’s a good thing, because I argued that a rift between the region’s largest economies was the single biggest issue in the way of a successful EAS. [...]